Thorvaldsen's Works, Requirements
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen commissions works from Thorvaldsen. For the façade of Christiansborg Palace, he wants...
Elisa Baciocchi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elisa Baciocchi wants to change the subject of one of the reliefs which she intends to commission...
Elisa Baciocchi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of Elisa Baciocchi, Poccianti sends a drawing with measurements in connection with a co...
Paolo Prossalendi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Prossalendi forwards a commission for a monument to the British governor-general Thomas Maitland,...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Mokronowski
Thorvaldsen accepts the commission for an equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123, and a...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski thanks Thorvaldsen for accepting the commission for the equestrian statue of Józef Po...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Mokronowski
Thorvaldsen notes that his conditions for executing the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski ha...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Mokronowski
Thorvaldsen writes that the wording of Mokronowski’s last letter might give the impression that h...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi writes that the cast of a bust of Thomas Maitland, cf. G342, has finally arrived in Venic...
Dionisio Bulzo
Bertel Thorvaldsen
At Thorvaldsen’s request, Bulzo explains the meaning of the subject for the relief which is...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski answers two letters from Thorvaldsen of March 1818. He also sends a specification of ...
Vincenz Rüttimann
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Despite the prospect of only a modest payment, Thorvaldsen has agreed to execute a model for the ...
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Description of the rock wall in Lucerne where the monument to the Swiss Guard is to be placed, Dy...
Vincenz Rüttimann
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Thorvaldsen has not yet made the promised draft of the monument to the fallen Swiss Guards, cf. D...
Leon Potocki
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Preliminary contract regarding the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123. Thorvaldsen ...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s last letter has been received with pleasure. The committee is now convinced of his ...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller sends a drawing of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119. He fears that the...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski stresses that the committee has complete confidence in Thorvaldsen’s execution ...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller gives instructions concerning measurements and special circumstances in connection with th...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tekla Potocka
This contract establishes the conditions for the execution of the funerary monument to Włodzimier...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Mokronowski
A supplementary contract which elaborates the conditions of the original contract of 8.7.1818. A ...
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schönborn writes that he has already paid 1,000 scudi, and that Thorvaldsen can draw the remainde...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Contract signed by Thorvaldsen concerning Schönborn’s commission of the statue Shepherd Boy, cf. ...
Julie von Dörnberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Julie von Dörnberg sends her late son Unico von Dörnberg’s death mask to Thorvaldsen and asks him...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Luigi Sommariva
Thorvaldsen responds to Sommariva’s letter of complaint regarding his father Giovanni Battista So...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Luigi Sommariva
Thorvaldsen explains that G.B. Sommariva wanted to be portrayed at full length together with Thor...
Aleksander Ivanovitj Osterman-Tolstoj
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Osterman-Tolstoj has commissioned a bust of Zar Alexander 1., cf. A715 or A46, which Thorvaldsen ...
Dorota Barbara Czartoryska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czartoryska encloses a note from Zofia Potocka and emphasizes that the latter is very pleased wit...
Zofia Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Potocka sends Thorvaldsen a portrait of her mother-in-law, Julia Potocka, to be used as a model f...
Zofia Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Zofia Potocka thanks Thorvaldsen for having accepted to draw the monument to Artur Potocki. Inste...
Zofia Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Zofia Potocka thanks Thorvaldsen for having accepted to draw the monument to Artur Potocki. Inste...
Helena Ponińska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A comprehensive corrective to a sketch made by Thorvaldsen, probably A617, for the sepulchral rel...
Helena Ponińska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ponińska asks Thorvaldsen to send the sketch for the sepulchral relief she has commissioned from ...
Helena Ponińska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ponińska reminds Thorvaldsen to send her a copy of the contract for the monument to her two child...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Goethe-kommissionen
Thorvaldsen declares himself willing to execute a monument to J.W. von Goethe. However, he wants ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Goethe-kommissionen
Draft letter. Thorvaldsen is ready to execute a model for a monument to J.W. von Goethe. However,...
Goethe-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen is thanked for his acceptance of the commission to execute a model for a monument to ...
Goethe-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Copy (abbreviated) of an earlier letter. Thorvaldsen is thanked for his acceptance of the commiss...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Sends Just Mathias Thiele to Thorvaldsen with a written request that Thorvaldsen model the revers...